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To improve the accuracy of classification and subpixel object detection, hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is under research in the field of remote sensing. Two factors affect the accuracy of unmixing results including the search of global rather than local optimum in the HU procedure and the spectral variability. With that in mind, this paper proposes a hierarchical weighted sparsity unmixing (HWSU) method to improve the separation of similar interclass endmembers. The hierarchical strategy with abundance sparsity representation in each layer aims to obtain the global optimal solution. In addition, considering the significance of different bands, a weighted matrix of spectra is used to decrease the variability of intra-class endmembers. Both simulations and experiments with real hyperspectral data show that the proposed method can correctly obtain distinct signatures, accurate abundance estimation, and outperforms previous methods. 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